“I think each of us has a story going all the way back to 1619 when those first enslaved people were sold in Virginia," said Civil War reenactor and discussion panelist Joe Zellner. "If we knew more about these people throughout history, I think we would be surprised and awed by their life stories.”
Franco-Belgian cellist and Deutsche Grammophon recording artist Camille Thomas arrives on Saturday, March 7, joined by the splendid pianist Julien Brocal. Their eclectic program...
One of the world’s most exciting quartets, the Quartetto di Cremona, returns with a program of “Serenades,” including Hugo Wolf’s “Italian Serenade” and Ravel’s...
Crescendo's award-winning Andean Instrumentalists Carlos Boltes, charango and viola, and Gonzalo Cortés, quena, zampoña, and flute, are joined by Artistic Director Christine Gevert, virginal...
There are chefs who excel in both baking and cooking just as there are musicians, such as Yo-Yo Ma and Peter Serkin, who excel at interpreting classical music scores and improvising over a jazz chart.
Antonín Dvořák’s Serenade for Winds and String Instruments (1878) evokes the 18th century, late-baroque, tradition of outdoor performances on the grounds of the nobility’s castles for the amusement of both the aristocracy and its serfs.
Stucky’s aim in “Dialoghi” isn’t to torment the cellist. Instead, he intends to endow the cellist with novel powers of expressivity. In this, Stucky succeeds admirably.
“Beethoven’s work,” Yudkin explains, “is of such a stature that it warrants constant reviewing and research. We’re dealing here with a genius of the highest purpose, someone on a par with William Shakespeare.”
